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Man Bitten By Alligator After Trying To Lasso It
WFTV ^ | 8/30/04

Posted on 08/30/2004 7:50:44 AM PDT by harrycarey

Man Bitten By Alligator After Trying To Lasso It

POSTED: 6:44 am EDT August 30, 2004

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Orange County man is recovering from injuries after learning a painful lesson about alligators.

Dan Hornock tried to catch a gator in his backyard on Sunday. He lives off Lake Live Oak Drive in the Avalon Park development.

He went after the five-footer, but things didn't go well.

"So I tried to lasso it. I guess you could say, it didn't work," he explains.

"Do not try to remove an alligator yourself. It is absolutely 100 percent avoidable," says Kat Kelley, Florida Fish and Wildlife.

The gator took a bite out of Hornock’s hand, but he will be okay.

A trapper later caught the gator.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alligator; gatorbait; holdmubeer; idiot
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To: harrycarey

Another one of John Kerry's hokey Florida campaign stunts goes wrong.


21 posted on 08/30/2004 8:15:18 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: shiva

I was wondering what psycho ward the one on the left wandered out of. I mean, if they can't get her to comb her hair for a posed picture...


22 posted on 08/30/2004 8:15:29 AM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
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To: asgardshill

Try a 12 gauge.


23 posted on 08/30/2004 8:16:01 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
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To: Richard Kimball

Maybe with flechette or dove and quail load. 00 is overkill and pretty much wipes out the eave of the house.


24 posted on 08/30/2004 8:17:52 AM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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To: Puppage

What's that stain on Kerry's shirt? Is this photoshopped?


25 posted on 08/30/2004 8:24:39 AM PDT by TX Bluebonnet
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To: asgardshill

ahh. the whole forum is in a good mood today.
soo much fun to be had :-)


26 posted on 08/30/2004 8:24:59 AM PDT by stompk
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Some people have watched way too much TV.

More like he hasn't watched enough.

Anyone who watches Animal Planet knows that you need at least two guys to lasso a crocodilian. They each pull the animal's head in a different direction to immobilize it.

Then you need at least one more guy (depending on the size of the anumal) to sit on the critter, catch its closed jaws and bind them shut. You might also want to blindfold it at that point.

Believe me, I didn't learn all that from wrassling gators myself.

27 posted on 08/30/2004 8:28:09 AM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: stompk

Give me SOME credit - I don't use deer slugs either. Many wasps - one deer slug equals a lot of p*ssed-off little stingers you miss.


28 posted on 08/30/2004 8:29:22 AM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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To: Maceman

Think about that idiot on the Crocodile Hunter.


29 posted on 08/30/2004 8:34:34 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I'm Conspiracy Guy and I approve this message. "John Kerry is a liar!")
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To: Maceman
"And now my faithful assistant Jim will restrain the (insert anything that can kill you in two bites or one kick here) for me to get out of my jeep" - Marlin Perkins, Mutual of Ohaha's "Wild Kingdom"

That segment of the show was the funniest bit of television in the 60's.

30 posted on 08/30/2004 8:34:56 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: blackdog

The Anaconda fight was a classic as well...Marlin on shoreline..."Hold him Jim! Hold him!"


31 posted on 08/30/2004 8:39:09 AM PDT by donozark (I fought at the Battle of Kimchi Ridge. The gas...the gas...it was HORRIBLE!)
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To: donozark
And wardrobe wouldn't even clean Jim up. A bruised, bloodied, battered, muddy mess would be Jim. Out would step Marlin Perkins for his cameo.

Absolutely great comedy by accident television.

32 posted on 08/30/2004 8:45:05 AM PDT by blackdog (Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
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To: Puppage

The thought of those four is frightening. Kerry's wife is uglier than her husband. And Edwards' wife looks like a wrestler.


33 posted on 08/30/2004 8:46:46 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: TX Bluebonnet
What's that stain on Kerry's shirt? Is this photoshopped?

Ketchup?

34 posted on 08/30/2004 9:22:41 AM PDT by China Clipper
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To: Richard Kimball
I don't think a 12 guage is enough for a bad boy like this one. From a KTBS helicopter over Cross Lake near Shreveport, LA.
35 posted on 08/30/2004 9:35:12 AM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID ))
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To: harrycarey

All your Gator handbags are belong to us.


36 posted on 08/30/2004 10:17:07 AM PDT by Shaun_MD ("Condition: Grounded, but determined to try....")
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To: UltraKonservativen

Is that dog in the gator's jaws? Thanks.


37 posted on 08/30/2004 10:23:13 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: harrycarey

Yippie Ki OUCH!


38 posted on 08/30/2004 10:24:59 AM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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To: dennisw

Looks like a whitetail deer to me. That's some big gator.


39 posted on 08/30/2004 10:29:32 AM PDT by asgardshill (The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
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To: asgardshill
Looks like a whitetail deer to me. That's some big gator......


Amazing and you must be right. The huge alligators are in the wild where they can go deer hunting. We have gator incidents here but the alligators are typically 7 feet at the most and animal caught is small dog. It can happen but very rarely a small child.
40 posted on 08/30/2004 10:32:50 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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